ÁLVARO ITIE FEBRÔNIO NONAKA

The present research aims to analyze The Imaginary, seeking to understand how the problem of the image is presented in Sartre's philosophy, exploring the connections between imagination and freedom. The dissertation is grounded in the critical outcomes of The Imagination, that is, based on a new theory of the image, wherein the image loses its status as a copy or simulacrum of the thing present in the mind—associated with the classical conception—and metamorphoses into a special type of consciousness by virtue of Husserlian intentionality. Thus, the central questions guiding our research are: How can we understand that imagination, insofar as it is capable of creating a state of non-freedom or alienation, can also engender freedom? From Sartre's early works, how is the problem of imagination constituted? What does it mean to characterize human freedom through the possibility of consciousness forming images?